Charlie Strong Probably Made Mike Gundy $40,000 on Saturday

Math time. Here we go.

If Baylor beat Texas on Saturday as a 20-point favorite[1. Which by the way, how hilarious is the college football world we live in where Texas is a 20-point underdog to Baylor with its third-string QB?] OSU was headed to a non-New Year’s Day Six game. That is, the Russell Wilson Sweatpants Bowl (or worse).

Mike Gundy gets compensated for going to a bowl game, but he gets compensated more for going to a good bowl game. Since the New Year’s Day Six (two playoff games plus Sugar, Peach, Fiesta and Rose) are structured similarly to the BCS, I presume the language in his contract applies the same. For the sake of this exercise, let’s presume it does.

So anyway, Gundy gets 1.5x a month’s pay of his base salary ($500,000) for just going to a bowl. That’s $62,500. Gundy is paid almost $4 million, but his base salary (for reasons I do not know) is only $500,000. For going to a NYD Six bowl, that bumps up to $100,000. Here’s the part of his contract that says that.

Of course, the Baylor and OU games cost him $50,000 but hey at least Charlie earned him some of that back on Saturday in Waco. Side note: Gundy gets $200K for playing for the national title and $400K for winning it.

So now you see why Gundy said what he did about following Baylor-Texas on Saturday (not that $40K makes any difference in his life at this point).

“I was at an 11-year-old basketball tournament in Ripley, America,” Gundy told the Oklahoman. “We like going there and playing basketball, but the cell service is not any good. We finished our second game, so I went and got in my car and drove down to the gas station to get two corn dogs and my phone started dinging, text messages like crazy. I couldn’t get to the end fast enough.”

Here’s a look at Gundy’s house this December.

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